The IMS Ghaziabad recently organised its 3rd marathon with the message Swachh Bharat Swachh Ghaziabad Abhiyaan where more than 1000 students and chief guest Teluram Kamboj, mayor of Ghaziabad; guest of honours Rakshpal Singh, ADM Ghaziabad and Kapil Singh, city magistrate; Rakesh Chharia, managing trustee IMS Ghaziabad; Dr Urvashi Makkar, director IMS Ghaziabad participated.
The marathon was commenced from Central Park (RDC) Ghaziabad at 9am and concluded at district collectorate at 10:30am. Dignitaries felicitated the winners of the marathon Prashant Singh (MCA 2nd year), Khushboo (MCA 1st year) and staff member Sukhpal Singh with the prizes at the end of the ceremony.
ICAI campus placement
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has achieved recognition for its contribution in the fields of education, professional development, maintenance of high accounting, auditing and ethical standards. Starting with a handful of about 1,700 members, today, the strength of Chartered Accountant fraternity has grown to over 2.35 lakh members. On the education front, the ICAI began with 259 students and today more than 8.5 lakh active students.
It also organises campus placement programmes for freshers twice a year. It provides an opportunity to the employers to interact with newly qualified CAs and recruit the suitable candidates. CA K Raghu, president, ICAI said: “The placement programme provided an excellent opportunity for topline Indian companies to recruit the finest minds in the accountancy space. Chartered Accountants provide essential strategic guidance, expertise and consultancy across a vast array of business activities and sectors.”
The Government is undertaking several initiatives in key sectors and financial inclusion is going to be a key growth area. Accountancy is one of the most significant segments of the rapidly expanding economy.
Raghu also said that CAs today are technically equipped to act as management consultants and play a vital role in assisting business and industry to improve the use of their resources, increase their efficiency and achieve their objectives. “The breadth of management advisory services rendered by CAs reflect their expertise in diverse areas,” Raghu said.
In its endeavor to provide quality accounting, finance, Tax, audit and management consultancy personnel to recruiting entities, the ICAI successfully organised one more round of campus placement for newly CAs at 19 centres — Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Thane and Vasai in August-September-October, 2014.
New education app launched
The MBD Group, launched augmented reality app called Nytra for K-12 education at the ASISC conference specially made for ICSE series K-12 segments recently. During its launch, Monica Malhotra Kandhari, senior director, MBD Group, said: “MBD has been a trendsetter in the education sector and we are carrying this forward with the launch of Nytra. Our products are transforming classroom learning using e-learning and mobile learning platforms to keep abreast of the way technology is shaping up.”
This app can make the images and illustrations in the book come alive with voice over for better understanding of the concepts. It includes digital content, videos, animations published in books, which would work on android, iOS and windows based mobile devices and would require minimum internet connectivity.
The app will be available on ‘modern’ and ‘holy faith’ text textbooks for entire K-12 segment for ICSE along with CBSE and State Boards. It can be downloaded free of cost on Android devices (version 4.3 and above) and will be available for download on Windows and iOS devices from December 2014.
Once the app is downloaded, user needs to open the app and will have to hover the camera on the image marked with the app logo on the textbook and the image will come alive.
Building on its rich pedagogy in publishing quality content, MBD has already implemented Ecademy Solution (Digital Classrooms) in 1,500 plus schools across India. It has also reached out to 20 million students through its digital content available in CDs.
Creative career conclave
The Pearl Academy, Noida recently organised a seminar on emerging opportunities in creative industry. Titled as ‘Creative Career Conclave’, the conference outlined that despite being at its nascent stage in India, design education has swiftly become the new favorite of generation Y. The conclave saw experts from different wings of creative industry addressing the youth and their parents about the various career options in this industry. Speaking at the event, Nien Siao, director, Pearl Academy-Noida, said: “It’s important to educate the parents about the options in this sector and to encourage their children to peruse and widen their scope of working. Our society is ready for the out-of-the-box options but the youth needs to think away from conventional thinking and bring in options to make a creative world.”
Workshop for parents
The Manav Sthali School recently organised an interactive workshop for parents of Class I and II about their new CBSE international curriculum. The school is now affiliated with CBSE-International for primary (Class I to V) and will be accepting admissions in Class I and II for the coming academic session (2015-16).
The key features of CBSE International are learner centric pedagogy, enquiry and skill based learning, integrated curriculum; creative, analytical, logical and critical thinking development; innovative and international benchmarked curriculum; individual and experiential learning; ethical and moral reasoning skills development and diagnostic, remedial, reinforcing and developmental evaluation and learning.
Mamta V Bhatnagar, director and founder principal, Manav Sthali School said: “By adopting CBSE international curriculum, we aim to continue impart holistic quality education for a brighter future to our students. CBSE international is an opportunity that will help our students have a stronger foundation and develop them into global citizens to excel in this competitive emerging world.”
During the workshop, the parents were enlightened about CBSE International integrated curriculum and its innovative pedagogy and developmental evaluation methods. School believes that CBSE international is an innovative and fresh approach to education with a global and local perspective. The CBSE-International curriculum has achieved brilliant results in many of the South Asian and Gulf countries and now has been granted to few schools in India, post rigorous quality inspections.
The grant of CBSE international affiliation to Manav Sthali School is yet another medal to the lapel of its achievements in the field of education. Since last 55 years, Manav Sthali School has earned its credibility due to its continuous zeal for improvement and by consistently providing its students with holistic quality schooling experience.